Re: printing with firefox3?

[Yorick Hardy <yorickhardy%gmail.com@localhost>]

Greg,

Have you tried the patch for cups mentioned here?

http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/pkgsrc-users/2009/01/01/19/msg009101.htm

Another test case would be appreciated.

Greg Troxel wrote:
> I am curious if there has been any progress on the
> firefox3/printing/cups issue.
>
> My situation:
>
> NetBSD 4.0_STABLE i386
>
> All packages built from source, up to date as of 22 1636Z January.  I
> checked that firefox3 and cups are still current.  Specifically:
>
>   $ pkg_info |egrep firefox3\|^gtk-\|cups
>   cups-1.3.9          Common UNIX Printing System
>   libgnomecups-0.2.2nb5 GNOME interface to CUPS
>   gtk-doc-1.11        Tools for authors of the GTK+ reference documentation
>   foomatic-filters-cups-3.0.2nb1 Foomatic support for CUPS
>   foomatic-ppds-cups-20070207 Foomatic PPD collection for CUPS servers
>   suse_libcups-10.0nb4 Linux compatibility package for CUPS
>   firefox3-3.0.5nb2   Lightweight gecko-based web browser
>
> also nspluginwrapper and flash
>
> mk.conf:
> X11_TYPE=               modular
> PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=            -arts -tcl apr1 cups
>
> The behavior is that hitting ^P in firefox3 causes it to exit, no core
> dump.  ktrace shows a segfault and then it tries to find gdb and exits.
>
> I made a config file:
>
>   $ cat .gtkrc-2.0
>   gtk-print-backends="file"
>
> and now gnumeric only offers file, but firefox3 still crashes.
>
> If I remove the gtk-print-backends directive, gnumeric offers my cups
> printers as options in the print dialog, and choosing one resulted in a
> file being spooled (printer off, did lprm).
>
> I am getting similar behavior on netbsd-5.


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Kind regards,

Yorick Hardy